Chung To Go Before House Panel

April 16, 1999

Former Democratic fundraiser Johnny Chung will be subpoenaed to testify before a House panel April 27-28 on Chinese connections to 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign contributions, Rep. Dan Burton said Friday. Burton (R-Ind.), chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, said the Justice Department has given permission for the testimony. Chung has been cooperating with the department under a plea agreement in which he admitted making nearly $30,000 in illegal contributions to Democrats, including $20,000 to the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign. "We have dropped our objections" to Chung's testimony, department spokesman Carole Florman said. Burton had written Atty. Gen. Janet Reno that "the American people have a right to know the truth" about any "Chinese government efforts to subvert our elections."